Just think about how can soviet do when they are facing Luchs without SU76/T70 and how can US do when they are facing Luchs with T2 units but not T3 units,especially in first 8 min battle. Ostheer has suffered from light vehicle rush for 1 year now the new AEC coming out just 2 min later than 222. The Osther don't have a light vehicle tier like all other 4 factions but still can't access to their heavy tier(T4) easily. Allies fanboys are just too blind to see this: Only T1 and T3 work effectively. 4 men squard infantry suffers from early anti-infantry vehicle kiting heavily, just like 4 men IS facing early Luchs but now the brits has earlier AEC which can counter both Luchs and Puma, meanwhile the Ost has no light tanks.
That's not a fair comparison because Ostheer has tools that those factions don't have. What if I said this
"Just think how can soviet do against LMG Grens and how US faces Sniper or how Brits face Mortars."
Ostheer's Shtick is that they lack stronger light vehicle play. Say you give Ostheer a clone of the Stuart or something, or a non-doctrine puma. So now Ostheer has everything, while some factions have nothing.
The counters to light vehicle play are an AT gun and AT snares. I completely agree that light vehicles if well micro'd are pretty much impossible to destroy, and can only be deterred. I don't think the solution is to give Ostheer the same kind of vehicle, I think we should look to solving the root of the problem(Light vehicles are impossible to kill when they come out).
If we give Ostheer a light vehicle such as that this game is going to come down to light vehicle play only, if you lost yours you may as well just surrender. Deep strategy right there.